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Waters, W. H. (William Henry)
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William Henry Waters (1896-1983) was a former history teacher and deputy headmaster at Abergele Grammar School. He studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1915 and graduated with a first class honours degree in history in 1920 (having served with the Royal Navy between 1916 and 1919). Subsequently, he won a research scholarship to study at Gonville and Caius Colege, Cambridge, and was awarded an MA in 1923 for his dissertation on 'Transport and Communication in medieval Wales'. His work The Edwardian Settlement of North Wales in its administrative and legal aspects, 1284-1343, which was first published by the University of Wales Press in 1935, is based on his MLitt dissertation (Cambridge, 1925). His other major work, The Edwardian Settlement of West Wales 1277-1343, was published by his son Richard Gwyn Waters in 2000.